The Mystery of 6,000 Tons of World War II Gold Treasure in Indonesia

From this looted gold, Japan financed its war in the Pacific. A battlefront stretched from Manchuria to the Solomon Islands. This naturally cost an enormous amount of money.

However, since 1943, the looted treasure could not be sent to Japan. This was because the Japanese fleet had been defeated at sea. They no longer had enough warships or fighter planes to escort the gold ships to Japan.

Allied fighter planes and submarines were ready to sink any passing Japanese ship. By 1945, Japan was on the verge of total defeat.

Prince Yasuhito, General Yamashita, and several other officials were blasting tunnels and caves to seal off the gold deposits in the underground caverns.

Rumors circulated that there were approximately 6,000 tons of gold and countless other jewels and treasures. This was only the amount in the Philippines.

This did not include those in Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Malaya, and other regions. It was suspected that much more had not been transported to the Philippines to be integrated.

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For decades, Yamashita's gold remained a mystery. Hundreds of treasure hunters searched for it.

A man named Rogelio Roxas claims to have discovered a Buddha statue made of diamonds and pure gold from a Japanese tunnel in the Philippines. He suspects this discovery was only a small portion of Yamashita's gold.

Many versions state that this gold was eventually shared by the Japanese Empire with United States military intelligence.

This gold was used by the US for intelligence operations during the Cold War against the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.

Meanwhile, Japan used its share of the gold to rebuild its shattered economy after the war. The argument is that how could Japan rebuild its economy after the war without a massive capital injection?

Another argument is that not a single member of Kin No Yuri survived the war, except for Prince Yosuhito, who escaped by submarine from the Philippines to Japan.

General Yamashita and other soldiers, if not killed during the war, were certainly executed by US troops.

Another version states that this gold was already under the control of the Ferdinand Marcos regime, which ruled the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

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